Mendocino County Biographies

Calvin A. Hopper

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

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	Son of William Hopper, on of the first settlers of Redwood 
valley, was born in Missouri in 1846. in 1852 he, with his parents, crossed the 
plains to California. The first five years in this State were spent in the 
mines, and in 1857 the family moved to Sonoma county, and settled in Vallejo 
township, where the followed dairying for three years. In 1860 they came to 
Mendocino county and settled in Redwood valley. In 1871 young Hopper located 
near Little Lake, after which he made two or three changed, and in 1878 settled 
on his present place, consisting of one hundred and sixty acres. He married, 
September 24, 1871, Miss Virginia F. Burgess, a native of Iowa. Their children 
are: Laura, Hattie, Lulu, and Jeanetta.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 567